"You realize, of course, that we can never be friends."
Harry: Great, friends. It's the best thing...You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape, or form - is that men and women can't be friends, because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all want to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive.
Harry: No, you pretty much want to nail them, too.
Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?
Harry: Doesn't matter, because the sex thing is alre
ady out there, so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that is the end of the story.
But what do you think? Look at the following quote by the famous playwright Oscar Wilde:
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
In a well organized, well written, insightful, and elegant five paragraph essay, please defend, refute or qualify the above statement by Wilde asserting that men and women cannot be "friends." Use supporting evidence from your reading, observations, and experience.
TRUE? UNTRUE? PARTIALLY UNTRUE?
Harry: Great, friends. It's the best thing...You realize, of course, that we can never be friends.
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape, or form - is that men and women can't be friends, because the sex part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: You're saying I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, what I'm saying is they all want to have sex with you.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: They do not.
Harry: Do too.
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her.
Sally: So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive.
Harry: No, you pretty much want to nail them, too.
Sally: What if they don't want to have sex with you?
Harry: Doesn't matter, because the sex thing is alre
ady out there, so the friendship is ultimately doomed, and that is the end of the story.
But what do you think? Look at the following quote by the famous playwright Oscar Wilde:
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
In a well organized, well written, insightful, and elegant five paragraph essay, please defend, refute or qualify the above statement by Wilde asserting that men and women cannot be "friends." Use supporting evidence from your reading, observations, and experience.
TRUE? UNTRUE? PARTIALLY UNTRUE?